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Are related has triggered fresh investigation into the study of john the baptist's relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom higham and george kazan have come to the nelson-atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. they want to analyze an ancient treasure reputed to be the finger of john the baptist. could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find? >> this is containing the relic. it's gilt silver. it dates from about the year 1400. >> what's really exciting about the cabs baptist relic is for the first time we'll be able to comp...

To get a useful enough sample size if we're to extract the collagen for dating. >> with limits to how far he can drill, he can't be sure they've got enough to determine whether this bone could have belonged to john the baptist. in jerusalem, the more john the baptist denounces herod, the more he risks inflaming herod's anger. with all the danger that could follow. >> you could talk about repentance and judgment day and maybe not get into much trouble. but you start to attack herod personally, and he's going to attack you personally. >> what's wrong? >> i see herod antipas as a really divided s...

With the german lord henry the lion. we know that he visited constantinople and requested relics. but it's possible that may have had origins much older than that. ♪ >> should we get the bone out and have a look at it now? >> sitting in an elaborate gilt housing dating back to the 14th century, for the researchers the challenge will be how to remove the bone from its precious casing. and when they try to extract the bone from its mount, there's a problem. >> the mount does not come off of the bone. >> oh, you mean i can't actually take the bone out?

>> guards! >> i think when john the baptist realizes that herod is going to execute him is this astonishing sense of ending and conclusion, and he knew as a prophet this is the completion of a prophetic call. the scientific questions to identify the finger bone attributed to john baptist is reaching its climax. >> successful in retrieving enough material for an accurate reading at oxford university's archaeology research lab, they use the mass spectrometer. it will analyze the amount of carbon in the sample and,

John the baptist's relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom hian and george kazan have come to the atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. they want to analyze an ancient treasure reputed to be the finger of john the baptist. could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find. >> this is containing the reblgic. it's gilt silver and dates back to the year 1400. what is interesting about the relic is that for the first time we'll be able to compare the radio carbon data with the relic that we've obtained from bulgaria. >> the bone ...